Wednesday, June 7, 2017

2017 No Rules Tourney Won by Edisto Outlaw

Team Edisto Outlaw with their wining wahoo

Team Reel Music with Heaviest Aggregate Winner

For 17 years the Baldwin Family has been organizing the No
Rules offshore fishing tournament out of B & B Seafood at Bennett’s Point.
And since 2014 the event has also been known as the Billie Baldwin Memorial,
where the economical entry fee of $100 per boat, and their hospitality remain
hallmarks. The crew of Edisto Outlaw won the event in 2014, and they backed it
up by wining again in 2017 when their 59.5-pound wahoo weighed in as the
biggest fish.

Team Carter Logging with a nice HOO

Organizer
Richard Baldwin shared that the 35 boats fishing on Saturday June 3 were the
most ever for the No Rules event, and that the crowd at the weigh in was
greater than 300 people. Baldwin runs B & B Seafood and has to balance a
lot of comings and goings at the limited dock space during the weigh in that
concludes by 6 p.m. that day. “After the awards for heaviest fish, and best
aggregate weight, everyone enjoyed a seafood supper prepared by my brother
Tadpole Baldwin and Robbie Hooker,” said Richard Baldwin. “We plan to fish the
2018 No Rules tournament the first weekend in June as usual.”

17 years and counting of No Rules!!

“In the No Rules tournament you can start fishing whenever
you like so we went out real early that day, and we caught the wining fish at 6
a.m.”, said Crosby. “We caught two more smaller wahoo by 9 a.m. and then the
bite switched off and we didn’t catch another fish all day.” More than one
member of the crew took a turn reeling in the winning fish, helping them earn
the $3500 first place prize money. The crewmembers are J.J. Lamb, Cal Young,
Ryan Crosby and Madison Utsey.